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Post subject: my uncles guitar. (fender by kingston)
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:53 am
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My uncle was in a band for a few years in north carolina and he gave me a guitar before he passed away. Its a fender made by Kingston i have no idea what year or model. Not a guitar person so if anyone could help me that would be great. Not sure how to post pictures on here either but its my profile picture


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Post subject: Re: my uncles guitar. (fender by kingston)
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 8:23 am
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No such thing as a "Fender by Kingston" since Fender and Kingston were two separated companies; based on your small profile photo it's a Kingston guitar. They were a mass-market low-priced import line that was widely available in the 1960s. I'm not 100% sure where they were made, I'm 80% sure they were a Japanese line but they might have been made in Italy. I have a book that has some info on various lines but it's buried in a storage box right now. I'll dig it out and check later today.

Also, to post a photo you have to have it on photobucket or some similar site; then you use the "Img" button in the post window to add your photos. I've discovered that the standard photobucket IMG link doesn't work on this board and you have to use the "Img" button - click it once, copy in the URL of the photo, the click the "Img" button again to close the photo link.

EDIT: I dug out my old copy of Tony Bacon's "Ultimate Guitar Book" but there weren't any references to Kingston guitars. However, I did a quick search and it appears that Kingston was one of several brands made by the Teisco company in Japan in the 1960s (per wikipedia):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teisco


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Post subject: Re: my uncles guitar. (fender by kingston)
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:06 pm
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Still could be a cool guitar.
And it does have a reason to like it beyond it's "Guitar-ness"

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